411

The following story took place about 9 or 10 years ago. My friend Karen was over at my house and we had been listening to the radio and heard that there was going to be some sort of contest to win something NSYNC related. Since we were such big fans we wanted to have the phone number to the radio station so that we would be able to call them ASAP when the contest was starting. So Karen suggested that I call 411 to get the phone number. Ok here is where the story starts but I first want to state that I had never called 411 before AND didn't know what the wonderful operators of the 411 company would be asking me AND I don't have the best hearing so now after making my disclaimer I will start the 411 conversation:

Operator: City and State?

Melissa: Melissa, Illinois (I thought they had asked 'What is your name and state')

Operator: Ummm hold on..... Ok I need to transfer you to someone else....

Operator #2: City and State?

Melissa: March 15th 1999 (I thought they had asked 'What is the date')

Operator #2: (giggling) Hold on and let me transfer you to someone else.....

Operator #3: Honey what are you looking for?

(At this point I'm starting to think that I'm doing something wrong in our conversation plus Karen is looking at me like I'm looney.)

Melissa: I need the radio station.

Operator #3: What city is it in?

Melissa: (flustered) I don't know Rockford, Dekalb I don't know.

Karen is laughing so hard at this point that she is turning blue from not breathing. Which makes me start to laugh. Plus Operator #3 is laughing, so I had no choice but to hang up the phone.

Needless to say I never got the phone number to the radio station, we never won the NSYNC stuff and have refused to call 411 since that time!